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ImmortalTofu
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States1254 Posts
September 06 2012 23:51 GMT
#601
Is there any way to get this to work with HotS at the moment, or can we just use it default? Thanks for this as always, been a personal favorite of mine ever since it came out!
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JonIrenicus
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
Italy602 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-09 19:41:06
September 09 2012 19:07 GMT
#602
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nesneros
Profile Blog Joined September 2012
United States11 Posts
September 17 2012 21:02 GMT
#603
Do these settings really help that much..? Will have to try them out when I get home today..
NewDawn
Profile Joined March 2012
Canada120 Posts
September 18 2012 03:19 GMT
#604
With Alt-Textures back.. does this mean you'll change the OP with both sets of variables? ><
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AngryHobbit
Profile Joined September 2011
United Kingdom32 Posts
September 18 2012 04:53 GMT
#605
Not sure what recent patches have done, buti used to get 110fps using this now i get 66fps
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Hylirion
Profile Joined March 2012
Netherlands968 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-18 14:42:05
September 18 2012 14:41 GMT
#606
Hmm I like the look with the bit more lighting but still simple shadows, but it is totally unplayable for me. When logging into starcraft the authenticating screen hangs for like 10 seconds, and ingame I get random drops to 10fps, that doesnt even happen when I put everything at high, so it seems to cause some strange performance issues. Clearing the programdata didnt help either.

Staying with high textures and models and just everything else on low.
nesneros
Profile Blog Joined September 2012
United States11 Posts
September 18 2012 18:10 GMT
#607
So I got home last night, applied these settings, cleared the ProgramData directory, etc., etc. now anytime I try and enter a game (whether it be a ladder game, preloader, custom map, etc.) the game sits at the loading screen, all players bars show as loaded, including my own and it just sits, only way to escape the loading screen is to kill the process. I am with Hylirion on this one, have to go back to high textures & models and everything else medium to low or high... I can play the entire game on high settings with no issues but meh...
LeroyJenkem
Profile Joined January 2012
36 Posts
September 18 2012 19:16 GMT
#608
When I apply these settings the units and buildings look normal, but the map is completely white. And i can see the entire map and theres no fog, its a blinding extremely bright white color. The only way to make it go away is to reset my game graphics through the options.

Any way to fix this? I really want to use these settings.
nesneros
Profile Blog Joined September 2012
United States11 Posts
September 18 2012 19:23 GMT
#609
There was that recent patch update today from 1.5.2 to 1.5.3 wonder if my troubles, and the others troubles have anything to do with that.
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
September 18 2012 19:45 GMT
#610
And i can see the entire map and theres no fog, its a blinding extremely bright white color. The only way to make it go away is to reset my game graphics through the options.

White terrain and landscape textures? Check alternatelowtextures and pixellight parameters. If both are 1 - change one of them to 0

now anytime I try and enter a game (whether it be a ladder game, preloader, custom map, etc.) the game sits at the loading screen, all players bars show as loaded, including my own and it just sits, only way to escape the loading screen is to kill the process. I am with Hylirion on this one, have to go back to high textures & models and everything else medium to low or high... I can play the entire game on high settings with no issues but meh...

Can't help much. SC2 already unstable on some PC machines with standart graphic settings. And using a bit varied is an untested area. For someone it works, for others - maybe not. Just test it with yourself, turn back some parameters, try to skip some steps and get settings that better fits to your and your PC configuration.

Everything is free to edit, just open in Notepad and edit it. Try to experiment with it, if something does not work, then change back and continue test!

Hybridic Settings are just a basic preset of some adjusted parameters, that correctly works for me and for many others. If you have problems here, try to edit hybridic settings, by turning on/off some parameters.

Hmm I like the look with the bit more lighting but still simple shadows, but it is totally unplayable for me. When logging into starcraft the authenticating screen hangs for like 10 seconds, and ingame I get random drops to 10fps, that doesnt even happen when I put everything at high, so it seems to cause some strange performance issues. Clearing the programdata didnt help either.

Staying with high textures and models and just everything else on low.

First, I want to say, the there are no huge difference between Medium and High textures.
Second, just try to use Preloader map and also edit some parameters.

With Alt-Textures back.. does this mean you'll change the OP with both sets of variables? ><

Hybridic Settings are using alternate low textures, they require less memory usage, thats why I think its better to use them.

Do these settings really help that much..? Will have to try them out when I get home today..

Those settings just give you another layer of graphical settings, that is between Low and Medium. It's not oriented to high FPS boost, but it's just a Low settings with some Medium adjustments.

Is there any way to get this to work with HotS at the moment, or can we just use it default? Thanks for this as always, been a personal favorite of mine ever since it came out!

Just use StarCraft II Beta folder. Everything is same.
LeroyJenkem
Profile Joined January 2012
36 Posts
September 18 2012 20:02 GMT
#611
Alternate textures are on 1 and pixel light is on 0. It didnt fix it.
Imbu
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States903 Posts
September 19 2012 06:02 GMT
#612
On September 19 2012 05:02 LeroyJenkem wrote:
Alternate textures are on 1 and pixel light is on 0. It didnt fix it.

Same here. Tried changing the values but it seems that something in patch 1.5.3 dislikes these custom settings .
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AngryHobbit
Profile Joined September 2011
United Kingdom32 Posts
September 19 2012 07:15 GMT
#613
it's screwed man - Pre 1.5 i was getting 100fps - now on 1.5 im getting 60fps if that lol
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yanot
Profile Joined March 2010
France130 Posts
September 19 2012 07:45 GMT
#614
On September 19 2012 15:02 Imbu wrote:
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On September 19 2012 05:02 LeroyJenkem wrote:
Alternate textures are on 1 and pixel light is on 0. It didnt fix it.

Same here. Tried changing the values but it seems that something in patch 1.5.3 dislikes these custom settings .


Same here.
Accro
Profile Joined June 2012
United States5 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-19 09:00:37
September 19 2012 08:51 GMT
#615
On September 19 2012 04:16 LeroyJenkem wrote:
When I apply these settings the units and buildings look normal, but the map is completely white. And i can see the entire map and theres no fog, its a blinding extremely bright white color. The only way to make it go away is to reset my game graphics through the options.

Any way to fix this? I really want to use these settings.



I'm having the same problem here and I've tried resolving this with the suggestion from 1 to 0 in variables.txt file but nothing has changed

Edit: I reset my graphics in options but now I'm running on extreme but with the bright light still in place of it's normal appearance. I don't know how to get rid of this brightness.

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yanot
Profile Joined March 2010
France130 Posts
September 19 2012 09:04 GMT
#616
remove all the variables.txt files in documents/sc2 folder before resetting in game settings, then you will get rid of brightness but also of the hybridic settings :/
Accro
Profile Joined June 2012
United States5 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-19 12:09:13
September 19 2012 09:16 GMT
#617
On September 19 2012 18:04 yanot wrote:
remove all the variables.txt files in documents/sc2 folder before resetting in game settings, then you will get rid of brightness but also of the hybridic settings :/



This helped! I don't mind that the hybridic settings are gone since I can switch values around again to my liking; I'm just glad the brightness is gone. Thank you!

Edit: I might be wrong here but it looks like "alternateLowTextures=1" is the cause of the double lighting. Even if I have don't have "spec" to "spec=0", the double lighting still occurs. Is there anyway I can make "alternateLowTextures=1" work?
Rasputincz
Profile Joined May 2011
Czech Republic95 Posts
September 19 2012 15:40 GMT
#618
Ok i get rid of the brightness but I am already missing the hybrid settings Also i noticed massive fps drop. I am playing on basic low settings right now and my fps doesnt go over 100fps. Between patch on hybrid settings i had constantly around 135-150 fps. Screw this...
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Magner
Profile Joined June 2012
United States3 Posts
September 19 2012 16:33 GMT
#619
1.5.3 completely screwed up these settings, are there any fixes yet?
DIMAGA
Profile Joined June 2004
Ukraine38 Posts
September 19 2012 17:00 GMT
#620
i cant change variables in accounts in SC2 folder (its simplifiedCloaking=0
simplifiedShaders=0) after the game run and shut down its automatically changes to simplifiedCloaking=1
simplifiedShaders=1 (in sc2 folder variables) and in account variables its just delet T____T sad story blizzard
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